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Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: .... Mel Reynolds has highlighted this fact for a number of years. Some 114,000 houses could be built on State lands. We have the money. We have the highest number of high net worth individuals and the Apple tax money, if only the Minister would take it. However, neoliberal capitalism is preventing public solutions. It is better to waste taxpayers' money on the HAP and give it to private...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ..., the truth was unimportant in comparison to his aim. He actually exaggerated the figure by over 31 times. If the Deputy is very concerned about money leaving the country, he could look no further than Apple, Google, Facebook and many other multinationals which have large turnover here. However, I do not think Deputy Grealish cared about that. He had no problem with the €64...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...college, Cabra community college, and Danu community special school, which were all promised by the Taoiseach, go ahead or will they be cut? This is a country that is refusing to collect taxes from Apple.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...there is just a little pie for the health service and that if nurses and paramedics get an increase, then something else will have to go in the health service. We completely and utterly reject that concept. There is a large pie of untapped and untaxed resources in this economy. We have the €14.3 billion sitting untouched in the Apple account. We are informed that the cost of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...people in this economy own €29 billion in wealth. There is not just a little pie for the health service. There is a huge pie of untapped and untaxed resources in this society, as we know by the Apple tax alone. How do we get out of this situation? First, I would not be playing tough man talking about penalties on nurses because that would stir up massive support from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: We do not support Apple getting its money back.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...and there is already a fund available in terms of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. This money should be used for housing. It should not be put away for a rainy day at a time when people really need it. We also have the money from Apple. There is massive wealth in this society that could have been used to resolve the issues. This budget is a landlords' budget from a landlords...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...obviously considered a luxury, cosmetic item in this country. What is the solution? We have these ongoing issues for children in particular but we have a refusal by this Government to use the Apple surplus. Ireland is one of the biggest corporate tax havens in the world. We partied here. It was great to hear some of the contributions from Fianna Fáil and, indeed, the Labour...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...the Old Whitechurch Road in Cork city. Solidarity has also explained the various tax raising measures that can be taken to raise the required investment expenditure to the Minister many times. That is without mentioning the Apple revenue. The Government prefers to protect the financially unsustainable and morally indefensible tax haven status that it and a succession of its...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...Tánaiste has only raised it in the past year and a half but the teaching profession has been raising it for a long time. The pay of teachers and all public sector workers must be restored. The money is there. Apple is just one classic example. If corporations were made to pay more tax, there would be no need for public sector workers and young graduates to pay the price.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...place on corporation tax. That will only result in increased profits for the 1% and increased misery for the 99%. If the Government was in any way concerned it would immediately take the money that is owed by Apple without contesting it and invest it in housing and vital public services. It would tax companies such as Starbucks, which in 2014 paid virtually nothing in tax in this...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...evasion and tax avoidance that is going on. I will refer to some of the kinds of measures that could have been incorporated into the Bill. If we stopped opposing the European Commission's pursuit of Apple for back taxes, we would raise at least €17 billion. That is just one multinational that we found out about in the Paradise Papers but there are many more. A 2%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the Apple tax issue?

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...édit Agricole have an effective rate of 2% on profits they shifted here and yet the State does not have the money to build the National Children's Hospital. It is well known that now the Government is trying its best to not take €13 billion from Apple. I will turn to the matter of the site location. In 2012 the Labour-Fine Gael Government made a decision to take the...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...avoidance on a massive scale. Obviously, much of this is connected with Ireland. In total, 100% of its cash reserves are kept out of America, which is even more than in the case of Microsoft or Apple. Loans from its companies abroad subsidise its US operations. The Minister says she has daily contact with the IDA, so perhaps she can answer my questions about the largesse Hewlett Packard...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...rights as we know from dealing with them. Somebody coming to rent a property can be shown a rent but has no proof that it is within the limits. People are so desperate they will not upset the apple cart. We have suggested putting the onus on the landlord rather than the tenant. The landlord should have to produce a certificate from the RTB saying the rent is in order. I do not know...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...early and that they miss out on schoolwork as a result. People wonder why - when we are told that there is a recovery and that the Government turned down the potential of billions of euro from Apple, etc. - there is no money for schools. How could building inflation increase so much in six months that a project which was included on the list but in November was removed from it by summer?...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...First, Revenue follows the orders of Government - please give us a break in that regard. Revenue does not make these decisions but implements Government policies. The Irish Government knew that Apple was avoiding paying taxes in other countries and was shifting vast sums of money into this country. Apple was, as Joseph Stiglitz has said, "pretending that the money, the profits, the...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...to use the funds to which I refer is the problem, which is outrageous. The Minister also announced a new type of housing estate today. The term "mixed tenure" has been used, which is something similar to motherhood and apple pie. Everyone is in favour of diversity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: ...the Government is planning, for its own ends, to take from one school to give to another. I gave the Taoiseach an example from the multinational sector and asked him a specific question about Apple. Does he not now agree that he should drop his opposition to the European Commission's pursuit of Apple? It would allow the €17 billion in question to come into this country to be...